I have read the volume with pleasure and profit.—Z. Chandler.
The volume is superb and will give the author enduring fame.—B. Gratz Brown, St. Louis.
It should have a place in every gentleman's library, and is just the book which young men of Great Britain and America should know by heart.—London Telegraph.
The most impartial criticism on military affairs in this country which the century has produced.—Army and Navy Journal.
Fills in a definite form that which has hitherto been a somewhat vague period of military history.—Col. Hamley, Pres., Queen's Staff College, England.
A valuable addition to my library at Knowlsy.—Lord Derby, late Brit. Sec. of State.
A magnificent volume and a monument of national History.—A. de Rochambeau, Paris.
A godsend after reading Washington Irving's not very satisfactory Life of Washington.—Sir Jos. Hooker, Pres., Royal Society, England.
A book not only to be read, but to be studied.—Harper's Magazine.
The author at all times maintains an attitude of judicial impartiality.—N.Y. Times.